Hellgate: London Update — Namco Bandai Hires Ping0 Support Team?

Wed, Jul 30, 2008

One week after Namco Bandai shone its brilliant orange light on the remains of Hellgate: London – via a decidedly cryptic message — that light has pervaded the game’s forums once more. Only this time, it comes in the form of a badge, worn proudly by three former Ping0 staffers.

Sporting a new avatar, yellow-hyperlinked screen name and the designation “NAMCO BANDAI,” resident community manager Diane “Tiggs” Migliaccio began the following thread yesterday afternoon:

Hellgate London Tiggs Namco Bandai

Moderators Serux, Chosen and dmitriy3 have all also eschewed the standard Ping0 blue for yellow text, and two of the three bear the new Namco Bandai Games avatar.

“It’s just a jpg file,” claims Tiggs. “Business as usual.”

Nothing to see here.

Move along.

These are not are not the mods you’re looking for.

In entirely unrelated news, Hellgate: London will begin scheduled weekly server maintenance starting this Thursday.

Namco Bandai representatives were unable to comment on these recent developments.